Technical Architecture Group (TAG)

Meetings and Mailing Lists

• Weekly TAG teleconference Thursdays, 13:00 Boston time, for 90 minutes
  The agenda is due to www-tag 24 hours in advance; minutes follow within a day or two.
• Upcoming face-to-face meetings:
  • TAG meeting 23rd-25th June 2009, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. (see local arrangements; confirmed in 9 Apr discussion)
• Recent face-to-face meetings:
  • TAG meeting March 3 - 5 in Redwood Shores, CA
  • ... earlier meetings are indexed below

See also: W3C Events Calendar · Holidays and Festivals·

• www-tag (archive) is the TAG's public list where it conducts work and engages in discussions on its work with the community. Use W3C mailing list mechanics to subscribe etc.
• public-tag-announce (archive, RSS feed) is used for announcements from the TAG of minutes, meeting summaries, findings, new issues, resolved issues, and drafts of architecture documents. Note: Announcements will also go to www-tag.
• public-webarch-comments (archive) is used for review comments on the Architecture Document.

The W3C archive editing policy is quite conservative; W3C will remove a messge to these lists only in extreme circumstances.

Documents and Issues

Current work includes:

• current issues and actions
• draft findings

The TAG issue list shows issues that the TAG plans to address; by charter, issues are addes to this list by majority vote.

Lower priory work includes:

• maintenance on Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One W3C Recommendation 15 Dec 2004
  tracking public-webarch-comments and proposing errata
• educational materials

About the TAG: Charter, History

The TAG charter was added to W3C process July 2001:

W3C has created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.

Our work from 2001 to 2004 culminated in:

• Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One W3C Recommendation 15 Dec 2004

  Abstract:

  The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures, and media. In an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as the technologies evolve, this architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web. They are identification of resources, representation of resource state, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents and resources in the space. We relate core design components, constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties they support.

Since then, significant events include:

2009

• TAG meeting March 3 - 5 in Redwood Shores, CA

2008

• TAG meeting December 9 to 11 in Cambridge, MA
• TAG meeting September 23 to 25 in Kansas City
• TAG work in recent months, October 2008
• uriBasedPackageAccess-61 issue accepted 26 Jun 2008
• Associating Resources with Namespaces finding approved (25 June 2008 announcement)
• TAG meeting 19th-21st May 2008, Bristol, UK (hosted by HP Labs)
• TAG meeting 26th-28th February 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada (hosted by BEA)

2007

• New Issue: webApplicationState-60 opened 2007-12-13
• TAG meeting 5th-10th November 2007, Cambridge, MA, during the TPAC . Mon am, pm (with HCLSIG), Tue am, pm(with WSC - WSC minutes), Fri am
• TAG meeting 17-19th September, University of Southampton, UK. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
• Misc writings: "Review of XHTML Modularization" relevant to XMLVersioning-41 (@@move to issues list)
• New Issue scalabilityOfURIAccess-58 2007-08-22
• New Issue httpRedirections-57 2007-08-22
• TAG meeting 30th May - 1 June, Mountain View, CA, USA hosted by Google. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday am.
• TAG meeting 6-7 March, Cambridge, MA, USA. Tuesday, Wednedsay am and pm
• New issue utf7Encoding-55
• Approved TAG finding The use of Metadata in URIs

2006

• TAG meeting 11-13 Dec., Cambridge, MA, USA
• Issue metadataInURI-31 resolved
• Approved TAG finding On Linking Alternative Representations To Enable Discovery And Publishing
  Issue genericResources-53 resolved
• Oct 2006 summary
• TAG meeting 4-5 Oct.,Vancouver, BC, Canada
• New issue TagSoupIntegration-54
• Jul 2006 summary
• TAG meeting 12-14 Jun., Amherst, MA, USA
• New issue genericResources-53, new draft finding: On Linking Alternative Formats To Enable Discovery And Publishing
• New issue passwordsInTheClear-52
• Approved TAG finding Authoritative Metadata
• Issue putMediaType-38 resolved
• Issue namespaceState-48 resolved
• Mar 2006 TAG finding The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace published as a W3C Working Draft
• TAG meeting 27 Feb & 3 Mar 2006, Mandelieu, France
• Feb 2006 Approved TAG finding: The Rule of Least Power
  
• Jan 2006 summary
• The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace TAG finding approved Jan 2006

2005

• TAG meeting 5-6 December 2005, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
• TAG meeting 20-22 September 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Jun 2005 summary
• Issue httpRange-14 resolved
• TAG meeting 14-16 June 2005, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Apr 2005 New issue standardizedFieldValues-51
• Mar 2005New issue URNsAndRegistries-50
• TAG meeting 28 February 2005 in Boston, MA, USA, during the Tech Plenary 2005
• Feb 2005 New issues nameSpaceState-48, schemeProtocols-49
• Jan 2005 New issue endPointRefs-47

Group policies

• Contributor policies
• Patent disclosures
• tag@w3.org archives (Member-only)
• TAG issue tracking policy

These materials are largely out of date:

• tips for getting the TAG's attention
• pre-tracker issues list
• See also suggested tactics for addressing new issues
• TAG internal page (Member only)